WATTS v. STATE

Nos. 77-1192, 77-1193 and 77-1194.

354 So.2d 145 (1978)

John Wesley WATTS, Earby Lee Johnson and Henry Ford, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack O. Johnson, Public Defender, and W.C. McLain, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellants.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and William I. Munsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Appellants contend that the trial court erred in refusing to allow them to present certain fingerprint evidence to the jury. We agree and reverse.

The State charged appellants with robbery and kidnapping. At trial, David Glenn testified that one evening when he stopped at a convenience store for gasoline, three men, whom he identified as appellants, forced him to take them with him in his truck. They made him drive to a deserted phosphate mine...

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